A Cricket Question

millerd · Post by **millerd** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:41 pm

Can anyone ID this rather handsome cricket seen the other week at Hampton Court Flower Show?

Thank you!

Dave

Mikhail · Post by **Mikhail** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 6:15 am

It's a male Roesel's bushcricket Metrioptera roeselii. It has expanded its range hugely in recent decades and is now common in the London area.

M.

millerd · Post by **millerd** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 8:11 pm

Thanks, Mikhail. I'd never have found that in a month of Sundays.

I shall look out for more of them now.

Dave

David M · Post by **David M** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:52 pm

Wow! Looks far too impressive to be in the UK!